Interesting image illustrating the comparative heights of various mountains and volcanoes, with a reference chart by continent below, showing heights. From Finley's New General Atlas.
An indispensable American atlas, representing the beginning of the hand-colored commercial atlas business in the United States. Includes Stephen H. Long's seminal map of the American West. Unusually clean and bright throughout. A truly handsome...
![Map of the United States and the Provinces of Upper & Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. Compiled from the latest Surveys . . . 1827 [Case Map in 4 sheets]](/map/small/43908bm.jpg)
One of the best large format maps of the United States published in the 1820s, including the location of several short-lived forts and Fur Trading houses between the Missouri and Mississippi River Valleys. Walker's case map of the United States is one...
Fine example of Finley's map of Massachusetts. The map is colored by counties and shows towns, roads, rivers, mountains and other geographical features.
Nice example of Edmund Blunt's chart of the central portion of the coastline of the United States, from Cape Hatteras to Long Island. Blunt's chart was one of the most commercially successful and enduring American Sea charts issued in the first half...
A nice example of Vandermaelen's Key Sheet to his map of North America, published in 76 Sheets, probably the grandest North American Wall map of the 19th Century. From Vandermaelen's remarkable 6 volume atlas, which if combined as globe gores forms an...
Rare Swedish map of North America, published by Akerland in Stockholm in 1827. The map is dominated by a massive Fria Indianer Lander (Free Indian Lands) in the Utah-Nevada area, with a fascinating depiction of the Trans-Mississippi West, including...
Remarkably detailed map of Cuba, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, with over 100 places named and a fine depiction of the roads on Cuba and its topography. Includes roads, islands, rivers, mountains, lakes, elevations, etc. From Vandermaelen's...
Decorative and detailed map of South America, from a rare late edition of Finley's New General Atlas. Wonderful color.
With Details of William Burchell's Travels in the Interior of South America Fine early map of Southern Africa and the Cape of Good Hope, published by CF Weiland in Weimar. The map provides a detailed look ath the southern part of the continent, with...
Extremely rare early map of the Republic of Peru, published by F.W. Spehr. The map was intended to be a part of Spehr's Geographischer Universal-Atlas. This work was started between 1822 and 1825, but the atlas was never completed, with only 36 of...
Detailed Plan of Auxonne, where Napoleon Studied to Become a Gunner Fine plan of Auxonne, a Burgundian fortification on the banks of the Saône. The stronghold, which housed an artillery school for France’s army, had Napoleon as a student and...
![[Hong Kong / Macao / Canton] Asie No. 98. Partie de La Chine](/map/small/64115.jpg)
Detailed map of the Province of Canton and Hainan Island, published in Brussels. The map includes nice detail at the mouth of the Pearl River, with Lantao, Macao and Canton named.
![Asie No. 110. Partie De Camboge [Vietnam]](/map/small/0206gh.jpg)
Remarkable Manuscript Collection of the French Invasion of Algeria, From the Collection of the Duke of Orléans Striking collection of 46 manuscript maps, and a few documents, showing northern Algeria. The maps date from the French invasion of Algeria...
Remarkable Manuscript Collection of the French Invasion of Algeria, From the Collection of the Duke of Orléans Striking collection of 46 manuscript maps, and a few documents, showing northern Algeria. The maps date from the French invasion of Algeria...
